it's not your fault - you're apparently somewhat of a retard. but many facts here are flat wrong. keep trying and one day you'll be a real journalist

9:28 pm October 13, 2010

Cyber wrote:

Yahoo is worth about $24 per share, once you take it aprt and sell off Asian assets.

An outsider team will direct Yahoo to start using it's "My Yahoo" portal to make some serious $$$
They can easilty add subscriber revenue, in addition to add revenue. They just have to think outside
the current BOX

9:43 pm October 13, 2010

Don Draper wrote:

Combining two very stale teepees (Yahoo + AOL) = does not change the (value creation) conversation.

9:43 pm October 13, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

Please do not be fooled by the rumor - it is impossible at all. If AOL and Silver Lake partners are the owner of Yahoo already, they can break up Yahoo and do what is mentioned in the rumor. Otherwise it is their dream only. Be careful for such untruthful rumor which can cause people lost $$$. Don't understand why SEC does not stop this kind of lies?

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9:53 pm October 13, 2010

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10:04 pm October 13, 2010

Bill Ricardo wrote:

Lets put aside the asian assets for a moment....
and lets put aside the buyout which i doubt will happen. it's just rumors and talk now. that happens a lot.
and leads to nothing.
Yahoo search is dying...... DYING ! It's 1/2 their busines.
Yahoo display ads will be destroyed by Facebook.... and that is the other 1/2 of their business.
I see yahoo back at $12 a share
earnings are in 4 days. they will be bad!

10:35 pm October 13, 2010

bud smith wrote:

I think two heads are better than one. plus, a man from GOOGLE!!!!!!!!! wake up .

2:41 am October 14, 2010

AOL has forward momentum, Yahoo has reverse wrote:

I was a fan of Carol Bartz but I am no longer.

I think AOL's CEO, Tim Armstrong, has shown that he has a good eye towards future in acquiring Techcrunch. Techcrunch wants to be a part of new AOL.

While Yahoo is bleeding managers. Yes, with new CEO, Carol Bartz, there has to be some departures but this many?

With Yahoo Tim wants to scale. I think most Yahoo managers will welcome Tim.

3:30 am October 14, 2010

jacob andersen wrote:

after news came out from COMSCORE that Yahoo had lost .7% of search I panicked.
i figured that search (1/2 their sales) was going down
i figured display might be up a bit but not enuf.
i figured that overall sales would be down come this Tuesday (earnings)
and that net income would be up due to expense cutting (carol is good at that)
overall, i figured it would be a quarter just like last quarter.
after holding for 4 months, i sold this morning at $14.71
figuring YHOO would announce the low top line and it would sink again as it did last with the gap down at the last earnings report.

at that point i thought i would evaluate earnings and maybe buy back in at a lower price or in worst case at a slightly higher price.

i figured the asian assets would sit in dispute for a year and nothing would happen

i got out today and today it rockets up. i lose.

one thing.... i wonder if Carol Bartz and the yahoo board had a duty to report they hired Goldman Sachs 2 weeks ago after they heard Private Equity buyers were raising a fund to buy Yahoo? i dont know if they owe us investors this fiduciary duty or not.

i guess you believe a deal will go thru. it is quite complex. it will involved not just Alibaba but also Yahoo Japan (owned mostly by Softbank). There will be a lot of players on this one.

I also wonder if Insider Information leaked out. Why did 50 million shares trade today? Did somebody know something?

3:45 am October 14, 2010

Big elephant wrote:

I love the fact that the purchase of techceunch is now viewed as a sound strategy. Turning around yahoo will require more than aggregating and launching a series of blogs. Also, i dont see how yahoo benefits from owning a dial- business. It seems risky to tie these two companies solely on the basis of synergies.

8:35 am October 14, 2010

ckc wrote:

Already started to move all my email to Goggle,will not ever use Yahoo if it is sold to AOL.I'll use Google and Live
before I ever go back to ANYTHING AOL,ever.

9:37 am October 14, 2010

John Galt wrote:

If the buyout does happen, and that is a BIG... BIG... IF, Yahoo as a company will cease to exist in the next
5 years, just like NETSCAPE or CompuServe before it. Yahoo has lost RELEVANCE in the current
environment. They have lost their identity. They still don't know if they
are a media company or a search company.
It is like APPLE in late Nineties. They are reacting to events
around them. On One side they have Google and on the other, they have Facebook and Twitter attracting
their user base. It needs a visionary CEO like Steve Jobs and another 5 years to find a strong footing.
But the restless stockowners would rather sell the company and make some profit now rather than wait and
gamble over 5 years.

3:02 pm October 14, 2010

Luke wrote:

Both of these companies need to die. AOL and Yahoo are pathetic remnants of the 1990's- washed out has-beens of the .com boom. They offer NOTHING new to tech today and are an embarasement even with what people still use them for. Gmail and Live/Bing are far superior email/web/IM functionalities. Please let AOL and Yahoo die off already. Please.

11:44 pm October 14, 2010

Betty Chambers wrote:

Dang. Now I have to backup my email and change providers.

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